Writer's Workshop - My Valentine

Today I am joining with Mama Kat for her weekly writer's workshop. The rules are simple:

Choose a prompt, post it on your blog, and go over to visit at Mama Kat's and add your name to the link list posted there. For good comment karma try to comment on the three blogs above your name!!

The Prompts:
1.) Who was at your front door?
2. Start with the phrase “Ten years ago on this day, I was…”
3. If you give a Mom a Blank…a post written in the style of the children’s “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” books.
4. Without social media I…
5. A poem for your valentine.I chose to write a Valentine poem. 

To My Valentine

by Patricia A Pitterle

I loved to make sweet valentines

When I was just a little girl,

With red hearts cut in perfect lines

and ribbons long and curled.

I folded up the paper

And cut the halves just so,

Then opened up a perfect heart

The two halves made a whole.

I wanted life to be much like 

Those simple hearts I made

Where both sides would fit perfectly 

Together as I bade.

Yet life is not a paper heart

Cut evenly, I've learned

That each side will do as it will

No matter what I've yearned.

The edges fray and stretch and bend

Each one with different needs

And yet the middle meets and melds

Becoming one indeed.

And so at last I have let go

Of dreams of perfect lines

I choose to let the edges go

That two might be combined.

The edges aren't important

They don't define the pair

It's the fold right through the middle

That joins the other there.

Now two hearts beat together 

In strength and love divine

The two are meshed and solid

Withstanding the tests of time.

The middle of two hearts become

The place of love and care.

The perfect whole made from two halves

That found safe refuge there.